Tag: Online Communities

Swagbucks is a website that seems to have taken everyone by storm. You can’t even log into your Facebook account anymore without seeing a ton of posts from your friends stating how much they won on Swagbucks. Naturally, all these Facebook posts pique your curiosity, so you go check to see what Swagbucks is all about. And what is it? Well, it’s a search and win site at it’s core. You basically use it like any other popular search engine, only you might win a virtual currency/virtual money called Swagbucks in addition to finding information on what you were searching.

The big question is, does Swagbucks work? Is it worth your while to bother with the site at all? After all, who wants to spend time on something when there’s only a chance you might win the prize and not a guarantee? Fortunately, Swagbucks is worth your while and actually does work rather well. If you use the site as your primary search engine, you’re practically guaranteed to win the bucks a few times per day, minimum. Also, there are other ways to earn the bucks apart from just searching. You can also get them for answering surveys, filling out free offers, and referring your friends to Swagbucks (the Facebook posts do come in handy for that).

So, why should you want the bucks? What can you even spend them on? There’s no doubt that the most popular prize people use their bucks for is the $5 Amazon gift card. You only need 450 Swagbucks to land yourself one of those. Believe it or not, it doesn’t take that long to work your way up to 450 Swag Bucks when you can usually win between seven to fifteen bucks every time you search the web, not to mention all the other things you can do on the site to earn them. Signing up is 100 percent free — no charge to you whatsoever — and you can participate as much or as little as you want. Obviously, the more you participate, the more you will earn, but you’re guaranteed to earn at least a little even with minimal participation.

Hubpages is a blog website that allows a person to make money writing about topics of his or her choice. There is no application process meaning that anyone can sign up and write. However, if one expects to be successful with this site, he or she should have good writing skills. After signing up, a person is sent a confirmation email and after the account is confirmed, the person is allowed to start writing. After creating a blog or “hub” a person can then make money on hubpages. Hubpages usually requires that the writing be atleast 400 words long. For the best success with this website, a person should make sure that the blog stands out. It should have an unique title and photos.

One thing about hubpages that could be potentially good or bad, is that a person is paid based on the amount of page views he or she gets. In order to get the most page views, a person should promote his or her blog. There are several ways that a hub can be promoted. One way is through word of mouth. A person should tell his or her family and friends about it and encourage them to read it. Another way is through social networking sites such as facebook and twitter. Additionally, having a personal blog or website is also helpful to drive traffic to one’s hub. It can take time to generate a reliable income from this site, so a person looking to get rich should not look to hubpages for that. However, if the person is diligent it can be a pretty simple way to put extra money in the pocket. You also need to monetize your hubpages by placing an Adsense and Amazon affiliate ID onto your hubs so that you can get a share of any clicks that people do on advertisements or any products they buy. Making money on Hubpages also takes a bit of patience but it can be rewarding.

After a person generates enough views, he or she is able to get paid. A person can be paid through google adsense or amazon associates.